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HORT603 - Grants and Grantsmanship Characteristics of Poor Grant Proposals Proposed research has already been done by others. Derivative research (research may be viewed as a repetition of what has already been accomplished in other systems). Contingent aims. Dead-end research. Technique searching for a problem. Poor justification. PI or PIs lack necessary technical expertise. Not using the most direct approach. Wrong choice of experimental system. Too broad and overly ambitious. Too narrow in scope. No preliminary data. Lacks sufficient details for adequate evaluation. Poorly written and presented. www www.hort.purdue.edu David Rhodes Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Horticulture Building 625 Agriculture Mall Drive Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Last Update: 01/07/08